![]() The other part of the travel is the one the author does around his grief and loss of his father when he was young. Being from Minnesota, I guess I think I know cold but this being on the 60 degrees is a new concept of cold and marks a border between the northern and the southern parts of the northern hemisphere. The trip starts and ends with the Shetland Islands and takes the reader west to Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Siberia, Russia, Finland, Ă‚land, Sweden and Norway. I knew very little about the Shetlands where it was, who owns the islands. In this book by Malachy Tallack, writes about his trip around the world in search of home. I enjoy travel journals and I enjoy reading about grief (I know that doesn't sound right). In Sixty Degrees North, Tallack travels westward, exploring the landscapes of the parallel and the ways that people have interacted with those landscapes, highlighting themes of wildness and community, isolation and engagement, ex. ![]() ![]() The parallel also passes through Shetland, where Malachy Tallack has spent most of his life. Wrapping itself around the lower reaches of Finland, Sweden and Norway, it crosses the tip of Greenland and the southern coast of Alaska, and slices the great expanses of Russia and Canada in half. The sixtieth parallel marks a borderland between the northern and southern worlds. ![]() a remarkable odyssey' - THE BOOKSELLER Sixty Degrees North is a deeply personal examination of who we are, of the landscapes that truly shape us and what it means to be at home. not just a vibrant new voice, but a wise, questioning and highly sophisticated talent' - JOHN BURNSIDE 'A beautifully written meld of travel writing, natural history and personal memoir. ![]() and a beautiful book' - ROBERT MAC FARLA NE 'Malachy Tallack is the real deal, a writer given over to pure curiosity, honest witness and that most precious of gifts, an unselfconscious sense of wonder. ![]()
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